netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: use systemd-tmpfiles to create /var/lib/arpd

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Message-ID: <20240311183007.4a119eeb@hermes.local>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:30:07 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Max Gautier <mg@....gautier.name>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next] Makefile: use systemd-tmpfiles to create
 /var/lib/arpd

On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:28:31 +0100
Max Gautier <mg@....gautier.name> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 12:40:03PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:57:27 +0100
> > Max Gautier <mg@....gautier.name> wrote:
> >   
> > > Only apply on systemd systems (detected in the configure script).
> > > The motivation is to build distributions packages without /var to go
> > > towards stateless systems, see link below (TL;DR: provisionning anything
> > > outside of /usr on boot).
> > > 
> > > The feature flag can be overridden on make invocation:
> > > `make USE_TMPFILES_D=n DESTDIR=<install_loc> install`
> > > 
> > > Links: https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html  
> > 
> > Why does arpd need such hand holding, it is rarely used, maybe should just not be built.  
> 
> The commit introducing the install of that directory is quite old

The problem is that build environment != runtime environment for embedded systems.
But arpd really is legacy/dead/rotting code at this point.